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  Quick Thinking Avoids Injuries in Two Car Collision web posted February 9, 2013  EDGEFIELD – Quick thinking by
the driver
of a pickup truck saved the driver and passenger of a SUV from injury
after they were said to have run a stop sign while coming off the
Highway 25 Bypass to enter Highway 25 north around 2:20 Friday
afternoon. The driver of the truck said he saw the elderly couple
approaching the stop sign and figured they would stop, "but they just
came right on out," he said.The driver was able to swerve enough to avoid hitting the SUV broadside, and instead clipped the rear driver's side quarter panel causing moderate damage to both vehicles. "If I'd t-boned him at the driver's door it might have killed him (the other driver)," the driver of the truck said. "It worked out okay, nobody got hurt and that's all that matters."  The elderly couple was traveling from
Missouri; neither was injured,
but was shaken from the collision. Their SUV had to be towed from the
scene. The collision snarled traffic at the busy intersection for well over an hour until the scene could be cleared. The driver of the SUV was cited as being at fault in the wreck. OS020813 © Copyright 2012 - 2013 All material is property of
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